Mussel shells are already being used for driveway surfacing. Waste from seafood processing is being repurposed for additional revenue streams. There’s opportunity for more.

Hard to Soft: Biogenic Absorbent Sponge-like Material from Waste Mussel Shells. Matter, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.022 ...

New research shows that mussels from several East Coast locations, though not yet Massachusetts, have shells speckled with tiny holes — far more than the mussels of yesteryear.

In the spirit of “celebrating impurities,” she primarily used regular sand from around the Thames, about 15 to 20 percent of mussel shells with a bit of soda ash, and locally sourced waste ...

The mussel men were after the mother-of-pearl layers found inside the shells, and factories sprang up in communities including Mishawaka, Lawrenceburg, Leavenworth, Madison and Shoals to feed the ...

Dozens of mussel varieties flourished in streams and river beds in what is now Indiana. There, the mussels lived mostly undisturbed by humans until the early 1900s.